SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - An ongoing corruption scandal in Brazil is damaging South America's largest economy and derailing government efforts to put the nation on a path toward slow and sustainable growth, experts said Thursday.
Brazil's economy will probably grow a meager 2.5 percent in 2005 - among the worst rates in Latin America and half last year's increase, said leading Brazilian economists at a Council of the Americas conference on making the country more competitive.
